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Deuteronomy 1:19

King James Version (KJV)

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Deuteronomy 1:19

Verse 19 of 46

Scripture focus

And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.

Deuteronomy 1:19 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Deuteronomy 1:19

Theological / Devotional

When we departed. Literally, when we “lifted up,” or “pulled up [the stakes and tent pegs].”

Terrible wilderness. Not only vast but hot, subject to great windstorms that whipped up the sand so as to endanger life, and also infested with various poisonous creatures and wild animals.

By the way of. “On the way to” (RSV).

Kadesh-barnea. Where the Israelites remained for a long time in the Wilderness of Paran, after refusing to enter Canaan (Num. 13:3, 26).

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